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Federal (USV)

Private

John W. Nichols

(1836 - 1909)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 23 year old laborer at Smithville in Monroe County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company K, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He transferred to the regular US Army, enlisting on 24 October 1862 at Pleasant Valley, MD as a Private in Battery C, 3rd United States Artillery. He was discharged on 16 May 1865 at Camp Sheridan, MD.

After the War

In 1870 he was a locomotive engineer living in Vincennes, Knox County, IN but by 1880 he was a farmer in Monroe County, IN. In 1900 he was a day laborer in Olney, Richland County, IL.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General1 and the Registers.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and his US Pension Card, online from fold3.

Birth

12/1836; Lancaster Park, IN

Death

04/04/1909; Dexter, MO

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 289 [AotW citation 33559]

2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 56, p. 238 [AotW citation 33560]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 336 [AotW citation 33561]

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